Blackberry-Mint Margarita

• Recipe by Cocktails 2006

The Hungry Cat • Hollywood
Many of the fruits used in the Hungry Cat’s cocktails are stored in steamer-clam buckets atop the bar—a nod to the seafood-heavy menu, and to chef David Lentz’s Chesapeake Bay area upbringing.

Ingredients

1. 8 blackberries, 2 skewered on a pick
2. Ice
3. 10 mint leaves
4. 11/2 ounces reposado tequila
5. 1 ounce fresh lime juice
6. 1 ounce Simple Syrup

Directions

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle 6 of the berries. Add ice, the mint, tequila, lime juice and Simple Syrup; shake well. Pour into a rocks glass; top with the 2 berries.